what's wrong with bhp?, page-10

Robbbbbb,
thanks for all your advice again today. Always level headed.

I mentioned the Baltic index being up 3% Friday. There's another indicator that's looking strong and that's the Coal price indexes (BHP's largest commodity):

Thermal prices:
30-Oct-2009 73.48 67.43 75.65
23-Oct-2009 72.53 65.90 74.43
16-Oct-2009 70.97 65.10 73.88
09-Oct-2009 71.88 64.43 73.36

There are growing ship queues in Queensland. If we were in for a lengthy downturn I would not be expecting to see these indicators strengthening as they are. BHP said China's so called restocking was complete 2 months ago. So where's the demand coming from?

Although the BHP SP may take a breather the fundamentals of BHP look to be improving. If we're in for a USD rally then even better. So we have a very interesting situation in my opinion between SP action and underlying earnings.